Health
A video game that entails moving around can significantly curb dementia – Innovation Origins
A video game paired with a fitness device is yielding very encouraging results for elderly people with dementia.
There are millions of people in the world who suffer from dementia. Around 180,000 of them are in the Netherlands alone. And that number is growing, given that it is mainly the elderly who are affected. There is no real effective medication yet. The medications that are available do not help all forms of dementia and do not work for all patients. But what can help is exercise or brain gymnastics. But what about a combination of the two?
That is exactly what the University Psychiatric Center at KU…
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